How to Do a Backward Crossover on Ice Skates

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Hi my name is Charlene Dodge and I'm hear at the Clearwater Ice Arena, In Clearwater Florida. And on behalf of Expert Village this is beginning Ice Skating. Where going to start the backward crossovers now. The first thing you would like to do is make sure that your very strong and comfortable skating backwards on one foot. Like the forward crossovers a backward one foot glide is very helpful. Using wiggles or swizzles. Pick up one foot hold the glide make sure you feel very comfortable with that. And make sure you try it and practice it on both feet. The next step would be to do those one foot glides on a circle, same as in the forward crossovers. Once you have control over your one foot glide in a circle your ready to begin the crossovers. You begin by pushing out with a backward inside edge lifting up the pushing foot crossing it over the skating foot and returning the feet back together again. Just as in the forward crossovers, you want to make sure you drop the boot over on its outside edge which is towards the baby toe allowing the legs to cross very well and getting down in a very deep knee bend. And then returning the feet back together again. Push lift cross and bend, lift and return the feet back together again. Try to keep your hips squared to your circle so that when you do crossover you don't turn forward, that is a very common mistake and can get you very tripped up and possibly fall. So you want to make sure that you push forward on that left hip even though you?re pressing backward with your left shoulder. Pushing lift keeps the hip forward or closed position, pull under lift the foot. And return the feet back together again. The same can be done in the opposite direction. This time the right arm will be back. The left arm will be in front; again you practice in a circle holding the foot up and maintaining and outside edge as you glide. Then your ready to push off lift up the foot cross it over dropping the outside edge to the baby toe, and returning the feet back together again. Push lift cross and bend lift the right foot and return the foot together. And those are your backward crossovers.

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